15 April 2025
Article by Helandi Moolman, Green & You
What if you are not using your solar system optimally?
Well…then you’re not alone. Many users either don’t have the time or the interest to figure out how to maximize their solar system in terms of benefits and overall savings. But this can make the difference between an expensive (battery-shaped) elephant in the room, OR a great investment.
Step in the Energy Monitoring Service – a service that will give you peace of mind and help pay its own bill. The service caters for a variety of solar users, especially if:
- You want better payback out of your solar system over time.
- You don’t want to spend time going through the data regularly, figuring out usage patterns, setting timers…the list goes on.
- You are not at home during the daytime and thus not utilizing your potential solar production fully.
- You want peace of mind – a solar system is after all quite an investment.
When your solar system is fully optimized, you will in turn see more savings – making the small investment into the monthly monitoring service completely worth it. Remember that famous phrase about monitoring before you can manage?
Monitoring offers many benefits:
- Reports
- PV production
- Battery health overview
- Recommendations
Another great cost-saving option is to run an energy monitoring service with energy audit prior to installing a solar system in order to really dial into the detail of usage and to optimize current energy usage patterns, behaviours and appliances prior to the solar system design. This could lead to a significantly smaller solar system, once all the above has been addressed.
The key take-away here? You can’t manage what you don’t monitor.